Listened to an episode of This American Life today that reflects on the shock of realizing that one is unprepared for what's already happened.
That's a good way of describing a lot of what we're moving through.
When pandemic started, we realized that we're going to need years to recover from the socio-psychological damage.
In these last two years of war, amid the rising threat of anti-democratic nationalisms & the blatant failures of climate crisis response...
We're gonna need a bigger boat.
Well said, Brent. Reclaiming our agency is essential to moving forward now. 👍🏻
@MLClark I’ve long wrestled with Lenny Bruce saying “The truth is what is, not what should be. What should be is a dirty lie.” If not should be, could be is necessary. Getting lost in could be, is living in denial of what is. I suggest that or just good old tuning out what is is what leaves people unprepared.
The collective trauma of what’s happened since 2016 still has me reeling, and it also includes deaths and illness in the family. I went through a few years of depression and the realization we are all going to process these seismic changes differently. I think the most important step is to recognize that we have experienced major trauma.
@CanisPundit @evamarie @MLClark
Have you watched The Looming Tower on Hulu? It’s now in our DNA.
@LnzyHou @CanisPundit @MLClark
Darn - I don’t have Hulu.
2016 was my turning point, too, Eva-Marie.
We learned a great deal about even "nice" people in our lives and cultures then. 2016 was also when I decided to start saving to move: the emboldened racism and xenophobia had filtered to Canada, too.
Canis Pundit: Dead on! The rhetoric from the frenzied madness then in attitudes today is a telling sign that we never reckoned with it properly.
Lindsay: Haven't seen it, but it's on the list now. Thanks for the rec!
@LnzyHou @evamarie @MLClark another take on how we got to 9/11: Ghost Wars.
The CIA has three intertwined ways of being: exceptional intelligence gathering, gross incompetence, and extrajudicial fuckery at home and abroad in the name of “national security”.
Reading some Tom Robbins may be better for your spirits though.
@MLClark
It's important to heal and rediscover our agency
It's important not to wish for a better past